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Book Review: Designing Data-Intensive Applications

A book review of Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Fun with Certificates

Disect certificates for fun and profit.

First Impressions of Jet

Trying out the rust successor of ansible

Book Review: The Missing README

A book review for The Missing README by Chris Riccomini

My PowerShell Journey

How my career changed by learing powershell

Using Ansible via GitHub Actions and Tailscale

Use Tailscale and GitHub Actions run your ansible playbooks against nodes on your tailnet.

My Favorite SSH Tricks

Explore the ssh_config to make yourself more productive

Monitoring Cron and Scheduled Tasks With Healthchecks.io

Keeping an eye on web servers that stop serving pages or hard drive that fill up are monitoring basics.

Relaunching My Blog

The time has come to republish the blog

Expiring Group Memberships

Take advantage of the new AD feature of expiring group memberships

Logging PowerShell Scripts

Get-Command -Syntax vs Get-Help

Random Man Page in PowerShell

PSGitLab v3.0.1 Released

Import a Module from Other Computers

Git Commit Messages and Hooks

Poor Man's GUI

Write a quick UI around your PowerShell function

Using ThreadJob for Performance

Deploying PowerShell Down-level

PowerShell Core 6.0 Released

Generate Random Passwords

Adding Updates to a Wim File

Even with Microsoft releasing new Windows 10 builds on a twice-yearly basis, there is still a case to be made to slipstream updates into your install media.

Never Lose Your Work at the Console

Tail a File in PowerShell

Update-ModuleManifest is Back

How I Work: Pester Testing

Generic Pester Tests

Export to Excel

Installing Modules

Time Your Script with Timespan Objects

Why Use Source Control

Turn Off PSReadline

PSPushover

Pipelines and Objects

Get Involved in PowerShell

Formatting Output

Introduction to Cmdlets

Introduction: PowerShell Direct

Credentials

Beyond Syntax: Pester Testing

A TechSession episode where we discussing going beyond the easy stuff in pester.

PowerShellGet Introduction

Why Write About PowerShell